Incoherent, authoritarian, uninformed: Trump’s New York Times interview is a scary read

Agreed. 'course I voted independent last election, and my guy didn't even raise a flicker...

Hopefully, they've woke to the fact that Johnson
is more of a detriment, than a help.

I almost wound up in the Johnson camp. Glad I didn't. Between his gun control loving running mate, and the fact that Johnson ran a campaign that was
childish and unprofessional(smoking weed on live TV, being creepy to female reporters), I just couldn't go there.

The fact that Johnson is the best the Libertarian party could come up with should say everything we need to know about them.

I voted Johnson not because I thought he would win nor did I want him to win. I voted not for him, but for the party to have a chance next election.
5% was what was needed for a chance to break the two parties. Oh well, the two parties are here to stay. Last election with the two worst candidates
in US history can't get people to break away then it is time to face that the paradigm will never change.

as potus he does have control the justice department thru his secretary sessions and who is to say he is not investigating hillary on the qt there
multiple organizations under trumps control they could use to quietly investigate her besides fbi and you would not hear of it till they have an iron
clad case. i mean what have they said that sessions was doing this year?

so ag having a secret meeting with husband of high profile person under investigation by fbi in a private plain 2/3 of the country to talk about
grandkids doesn't put that department in a bad lot? when fbi investigated this meeting on the tarmac all they were interested is who leaked meeting
to public.

He is the head of the executive branch of the united states. Why woukdnt he therefore be the seniormost position when it comes to the justices
department? Congress is laws, judicial branch is interpretation of laws and the constitution, and executive is like the queen of the UK. Head of state
and military and ensuring that every level of government executes the offices that they occupy

It would be comforting, on some level, to believe that Trump is simply lying, that he is trying to convince us of what he knows to be untrue.
It is scarier to believe that Trump is delusional, that he has persuaded himself that Democrats have said things they’ve never said, that his base
has strengthened when it has actually weakened, that it’s really his opponents under investigation for collusion, that his campaign has been cleared
of wrongdoing when the circumstantial case for collusion has only grown stronger.

But that is far from the end of the interview.

Trump: “I have absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department”

A few paragraphs later, for instance, Trump offers this chilling comment when asked about Hillary Clinton’s emails (which, amazingly, we are somehow
still talking about in December 2017):

NYT: You control the Justice Department. Should they reopen that email investigation?

TRUMP: What I’ve done is, I have absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department. But for purposes of hopefully thinking I’m
going to be treated fairly, I’ve stayed uninvolved with this particular matter.

Read Trump’s phrasing carefully: “I have absolute right to do what I want to do with the Justice Department.” It’s a statement that speaks
both to Trump’s yearning for authoritarian power and his misunderstanding of the system in which he actually operates.

And it’s followed by something yet scarier. “For purposes of hopefully thinking I’m going to be treated fairly, I’ve stayed uninvolved with
this particular matter,” he says. www.vox.com...

I know Trumpers don't mind Trump lying like crazy or making absurd claims, but his comment quoted above about the Justice Department has to bother all
Trump supporters in my view. Consider the following moments from recent history.

In this video, Trump asserts that he would have the power as POTUS to put Hillary Clinton behind bars.

I thought locking Hillary Clinton up was one of the things Trumpers cared about most. Therefore, I would think they would care about whether Trump has
the absolute right to do what he wants with the Justice Department.

If he does, then he's apparently betraying his supporters.

If he doesn't, then it's just another day and another Trump lie.

Strategy evolves or you lose. There is nobody on the entire planet that can justify a Hillary who isn't prosecuted, she IS guilty factually, yet
evaded indictment.

The president does have the power he alleges, the people defending Hillary at the highest levels of government are also at the highest levels of
government, so if he goes after her, they will stop doing their jobs, which is effectively what they've done since Trump won the election.

There is no empirical evidence and barely even circumstancial evidence of "Russian collusion" and even if there were, even the left have come out and
said that it's not illegal. The only charge they could get is obstruction and they can't get that without proof.

Now, how could you obstruct by defending against a witch Hunt that has only one goal, to road block the president, by hiding legal dealings from those
who try to demonize you for having those legal dealings????

I don't even like Trump, I'm just so tired of this grandstanding campaign, if you want to go after him or attack his legitimacy for reelection, than
why are we not focusing on his real mistakes, like supporting the death to net neutrality????????

Plus a bunch of lower courts for immigration and other specific areas of law that require it, and the States, of course.

The Justice Department only enforces the law. Under them falls the BATFE, the FBI, DEA, FBP, OJP, and the US Office of the Attorney General; the guy
who goes to court on behalf of the Federal government.

Generally, if you can SEE what the government is doing, you are probably looking at the Executive branch.

originally posted by: Grambler
People are worried about Trumps words here.

Meanwhile, Obama went beyond words and did whatever he wanted with the DOJ, the FBI, the IRS, the EPA, and so forth.

The worst part was one of Obama's biggest campaign promises was to create transparency and accountability and he ended up having the most secret
Government in recent times. FOIA was almost nonexistent under his helm and we had many thing like gun running, to drugs, to plutonium sales, FBI/IRS
abuse etc etc all done secretly and all really against the law...lol

originally posted by: queenofswords
President Trump is doing the right thing. He is letting it all unravel itself. He's right. The president holds a great deal of power over the
Justice Dept., but he is standing back and letting everything fall into place as the investigation reveals more and more of what the Obama
administration was really up to.

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